US military taking "targeted actions" against "wide-spread, evolving" hack

The Pentagon's combat support agency tasked with information technology and communications support has said it's taking active measures to investigate potential intrusions and guard against future threats after a massive hack that infiltrated across at least several departments of the U.S. federal government.

"We are aware of the wide-spread and evolving cyber incident," Navy Vice Admiral Nancy Norton, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency and commander of Joint Force Headquarters - Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN), said in a statement sent Wednesday to Newsweek.

"We continue to assess our DOD Information Networks for indicators of compromise and take targeted actions to protect our systems beyond the defensive measures we employ each day," the statement continued.